Kaleidoscope 2018 - LMI October Puzzle Test - 19th to 22nd Oct | |
LMI Tests -> Monthly Sudoku and Puzzle Tests | 25 posts • Page 1 of 1 • 1 |
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Hex Slitherlink Author Posts: 145 Location: France |
The .harder puzzles are really not at a reasonable difficulty level. Trying to solve Sum Star 2 was a gamble; since Sum Star 1 was pretty reasonable and a lot of fun, I decided to try. However, after spending 90 minutes on it to end up nowhere (probably made a mistake somewhere along the solving path), it became clear the gamble didn't pay off. This is a problem in a limited time contest -- when a single puzzle can take longer than the contest, the outcomes are really a matter of luck in choosing which puzzles to attempt. So, that kind of ruined the contest for me. But I will probably have a lot of fun returning to those puzzles without a time limit, though... | |||||||||
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Classics & Regions (PR 2016/17) Author Posts: 170 Location: Germany | Thanks for the contest, very innovative as usual! On a better day I'd have gotten out one of the remaining hard ones (Yajilin, Sum Star or Kropki Switch) in the last half hour, but I couldn't make reasonable progress on any and didn't have real bifurcation work in me today. I'm ok with the result though, considering I didn't manage some of the examples. | |||||||||
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Location: India | Please ignore ''3 most favorite' section in the feedback page. You can mention in the forum directly. | |||||||||
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Posts: 181 Location: New Zealand |
..................... I spent so long on the large Sum Star that I thought the contest was over, I just gave up on competing and was being stubborn. These puzzles are too hard and complicated for a normal LMI contest structure - even 2 hours was much too short. Perhaps you could try a 1 week time limit, like the April contest, let people take their time? | |||||||||
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Typed Logic Author Posts: 241 Location: Indonesia |
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An LMI player |
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Location: India | Congratulations to Nikola Zivanovic, Endo Ken and Robert Vollmert for taking the top 3 spots in this hard test. Thanks to all the 70 participants. | |||||||||
Rubben |
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Posts: 20 Location: Romania |
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Location: India | Solution Booklet is available now. | |||||||||
Eugene Porter |
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Posts: 11 Location: United States | Beautifully designed puzzles. I was wondering about a potential alternate solution to Sum Star 1. After the test I came up with an answer string of 873x17x7x. The top left dodecagon reading clockwise from the 8(at 9 o'clock) - 6x42x3x1x598 with 7 in the middle. The top right dodecagon reading clockwise from the 7 (at 3 o'clock) - 82x79x4x35x7 with 1 in the middle. The lower dodecagon reading clockwise starting with a 8 at 12 o'clock then x1x96543x2x8 with the 7 in the middle. | |||||||||
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Posts: 12 Location: Denmark | Possibly stupid question: When will the password for this test be available (again)? Is there any reason why the passwords are not published immeiately after the competition is over? | |||||||||
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Kaleidoscope Author Posts: 20 Location: United States | Apologies that I didn't address these earlier. Eugene, The alternate solution fails because the top right dodecagon contains two 7's and no 6. Nizz, the password is topo-LOGICal I will look into getting an unlocked pdf and solutions booklet posted. | |||||||||
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